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- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 14 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Meet the HBS Jewish Student Association
practice their religion openly. Hence, the Judaism that I grew up with emphasized the importance of spending time with family, maintaining traditions, and sharing our people’s history. I’m excited to work with the co-presidents to create... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
makes you anxious or defensive, approach and learn. Nothing is worth prolonged misery, but learning can be painful. Are you chasing the rabbit are you dodging the stretch? Don’t treat home as a pit stop—spend quality time with family! Put... View Details
- 12 May 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Sophie Bai (MBA 2020)
the time.” SB: “We both screamed over the phone to express how shocked we were! Later in the conversation, Brianna asked me to keep the HBS packet until she moved to Boston. We also added each other on WeChat after the phone call.” Two weeks later, Sophie and Brianna... View Details
- 27 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets
characterized quite often by turbulent situations. When you are negotiating in a turbulent environment, you feel reassured if the entity you are transacting with is likely to be around tomorrow. Otherwise, what’s the point of investing View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Blog
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023
design, and sci-fi I have just started reading The Coach's Guide for Women Professors by Rena Seltzer. My fabulous female colleagues recommended it to me during a conversation about time management. (Who doesn't need more time, right?)... View Details
- Web
Climate Impact - Business & Environment
tools they need to simplify, accelerate, and optimize the financing of critical climate assets.” Ayr Muir MBA 2004 | Founder & CEO, Clover Food Lab “Meat production and the agriculture industry behind it are the second biggest contributors of greenhouse gasses. Every... View Details
- 31 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher
Aerogels, observed that downturns can be opportunities for the well prepared. "Those economic disruptions, as long as you have money in the bank, can be opportunities to succeed," he said. For example, during good times it can... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Ikenna Okezie
company that would give patients online access to their medical records. "Physicians don't always share enough information about a patient's status and treatment, which makes many patients anxious at a time when they already feel a lack... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
stable tree that can be summarized by its key variables’ splits. Results: We identify seven key factors that impact passengers’ connection times, dividing passengers into 16 passenger segments. We find that adding correlations among the connection View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Loeb House | About
The Georgian Revival-style, stucco and brick facility has been repurposed several times and was renovated in the 1960s and again in 1985, when it became the first building on campus to be wired for networked personal computers. In 2016... View Details
- Web
Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School. 6. Land quoted in Robert Lenzner, "Land: The Man Behind the Camera," Boston Globe , October 17, 1976, B7. 7. Land quoted in Philip Taubman, "The Most Basic Form of Creativity," Time 99, no. 26 (June 26, 1972): 96.... View Details
- Portrait Project
Uzoma Nwagba
"African government? Don't. You must be corrupt or crazy. Or you will fail." Big Mentor always means well. But this time he will be wrong. That classic doomsday narrative will not remain Africa's soundtrack. No, not even in our... View Details
- 03 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?
digital nomad visas to attract a global workforce. Digital nomad visas allow tourists to legally work in a foreign country, creating a boon for areas trying to attract remote workers and for companies looking to entice talent, particularly at a View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 09 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration
and organizations at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Challenging segregation at work and home The study comes at a time when cries for racial justice have grown in the United States, and Jachimowicz says it should be a... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- Portrait Project
Sylvester Wee
"You’ll never make it." I’ve heard that same line too many times growing up, but never once succumbed to it. I started competitive tennis late at the age of 12 but trained hard to eventually become the top ranked player in Singapore. I... View Details
- Research Summary
Incorporating Price and Inventory Endogeneity in Firm-Level Sales Forecasting.
Forecasting firm-level sales is a key activity in top-down planning in most organizations. In the retailing industry, firms can use inventory and price to stimulate demand. Hence, standard time series methods for sales forecasting can be improved by incorporating... View Details
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Transition Leadership
Michael Watkins is developing frameworks, programs, and e-performance tools for helping leaders to take charge in new senior management roles. New leaders' actions during their first few months on the job have a disproportionate impact on their ultimate success or... View Details
- 2025
- Working Paper
Extractive Taxation and the French Revolution
By: Tommaso Giommoni, Gabriel Loumeau and Marco Tabellini
We study the fiscal determinants of the French Revolution, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in the salt tax—a large source of royal revenues and one of the most extractive forms of taxation of the Ancien Régime. Implementing a Regression Discontinuity... View Details
Keywords: Extractive Taxation; Regime Change; French Revolution; State Capacity; Taxation; History; Government Administration; Attitudes; Public Opinion
Giommoni, Tommaso, Gabriel Loumeau, and Marco Tabellini. "Extractive Taxation and the French Revolution." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-047, April 2025. (Featured at VoxEU and HBS Working Knowledge.)
- January 2025 (Revised April 2025)
- Case
Less Is More: Will Aldi's Expansion Plans Pay Off in a Crowded U.S. Grocery Market?
By: David Collis and Haisley Wert
In 2024, the discount grocery retailer Aldi announced bold U.S. expansion plans. Within five years, the German company would increase its store count by 30% to reach 3,200+ stores across the United States and approach becoming the fifth largest grocery retailer in the... View Details
Keywords: Scope; Grocery; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Business Model; Competitive Strategy; Retail Industry; United States
Collis, David, and Haisley Wert. "Less Is More: Will Aldi's Expansion Plans Pay Off in a Crowded U.S. Grocery Market?" Harvard Business School Case 725-416, January 2025. (Revised April 2025.)